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Composer’s Studio

The Composer’s Studio is a place where living art is made, a place without boundaries where inspiration can come from anywhere from birdsong to heavy metal, Vivaldi to the hum of a vacuum cleaner.  Join hosts Tarik Ghiradella and Anna Linvill for conversations with living composers and musicians about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of contemporary composition today.  Spanning the globe, but with special emphasis on the local NC scene, this is a classical music show like none you have ever heard. Follow us on Facebook to join the conversation and find out about upcoming guests and performances.

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Composer’s Studio Archives

Composer’s Studio – 7/12/20 – Stephen Downing

Inspired by the obsessiveness of minimalism, the relentlessness of rock, the mysticism of sacred music, and the organic structures of global music, the multi-talented composer and visual artist Stephen Downing seeks to find the intersection of the classical tradition, organic structures, and technology. Join Amy Scurria and Tarik Ghiradella for an exploration of the art […]

Composer’s Studio – 6/28/20 – What is 21st Century Music?

Join Tarik and Anna for this special episode of Composer’s Studio where we explore the work of some of the most important living composers. With influences ranging from minimalism, to Baroque dance, to Hip Hop, these composers are at the cutting edge of today’s renaissance in musical composition.

Composer’s Studio – 6/21/20 – Brent Michael Davids Rerun

In this powerful episode, Tarik and Amy discuss music and American history with Brent Michael Davids, composer and co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan. An American Indian citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, his heritage is a major influence on his work. Brent experiments with traditional Native American singing and instruments, […]

Composer’s Studio – 6/14/20 – Anthony M. Kelley

In this episode of CS, composer and Duke professor Anthony Kelley takes us on a tour through his musical family tree. From Ghanaian dance music to Bach, Scott Joplin to Aaron Copland, Kelley’s music is defined by a constant push and pull, a blending and a breaking apart. His piano concerto, Africamerica, begins on a […]

Composer’s Studio – 6/7/20 – Kenneth Frazelle and Andrea Edith Moore

Composer Kenneth Frazelle has had work commissioned and performed by such prominent artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, Dawn Upshaw, jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson, and now the Mallarme Chamber Players based right here in North Carolina. On CS this week, we are treated to a sneak preview of Ken Frazelle’s new song cycle, Through the […]

Composer’s Studio – 5/31/20 – Jenni Brandon

Take a step into nature, into the love of a wife and mother, and the strength of a young woman. Be inpsired by the tenacity of young trees. Award winning composer Jenni Brandon’s optimistic music explores the small things–often the things that really matter. Jenni’s music appears on over 20 albums, and has been awarded the […]

Composer’s Studio – 5/24/20 – Jesse Ayers

On the Composer’s Studio this week, Tarik and Amy take a deep dive into of composer Jesse Ayers’ opera Beneath Suspicion, based on historical accounts of the friendship between two abolitionist women in Virginia during the civil war–one an emancipated slave, the other a white former slave owner. Their powerful story encourages us to have […]